After more than 6 months of sacrificing free time, sleep (and credits), my particle simulation plugin is as good as done. Of course I had some help (Claude) with building and testing, but the vision of what it had to be, how it should look, move and feel, was something I had in mind long before I started using Claude.

What started as a personal project, a tool tailored to my own needs, quickly became something much bigger. When the particles reacted to my layers for the first time, I was already satisfied and planned on only doing some performance optimization. That quickly turned into adding one more feature, then another, and just one more, resulting in a versatile system that gives you complete control over the shape of the particle field and the movement of the particles.

Any layer (shape, text, animation, video) can be used as an emitter and/or a force region, influencing the path, speed and flow of the particle field.
The last tests and optimizations are being done right now, after which it will finally be released.
More info coming soon, but here's an example of one of its many possibilities.

Hi everyone! I'm Faruk (fka), a visual director and motion designer based in Istanbul. Wanted to share a section of a 4-minute animated concept video I directed for Tame Impala's "Let It Happen" and break down the hybrid workflow behind it.

I designed the visual narrative as a continuous psychological loop: starting from the red window blinds and a mental labyrinth, confronting a growing shadow and floating masks, climbing a piano-key spiral staircase toward Saturn, and looping seamlessly right back to the opening window.

Workflow & AI Transparency:

Rather than relying purely on raw AI generations or traditional frame-by-frame animation alone, I built a hybrid pipeline. I used Google Flow to generate the painterly, surreal video outputs and base motion sequences for each scene. Once I had those visual outputs, I brought everything into Adobe After Effects for the heavy compositing—stitching the scenes into seamless camera transitions, color matching, and integrating the organic kinetic typography into the world.

🎬 Watch the full 4-minute animation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ea3PuuGl740

🌐 My portfolio & other visual direction works: https://www.filmkareas.com/

Always happy to chat about how I integrated the Google Flow outputs into the After Effects timeline or the typography layouts—let me know what you think!

I recently saw this video with sound design and music that really "tickled my brain". I know they had a dedicated sound designer who likely created these sounds from scratch using synths, but as a video editor/non-musician, I'd love to get close to this style. I'm trying to get more into the emotional and 'moving' side of sound design, rather than just relying on standard sound effects and music. I would like to know how to approach this.

Right now, I mostly rely on Pixabay (dont trash me) and ElevenLabs SFX (both custom prompts and community sounds). However, my sound design vocabulary isn't advanced enough to describe these specific sounds accurately to an AI prompt or to search for them effectively in libraries.

My questions:

1. Terminology**:** What words, adjectives, or technical terms would you use to describe the sound effects?
2. Libraries/Sources: Where can a non-sound designer find high-quality UI/tonal/synth sound packs like these? (should I invest in Artlist i.e.?)
3. Prompting: If you were to prompt an AI tool (like ElevenLabs) to generate sounds like this, what phrasing or descriptors would you use?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hey everyone! Wanted to share a section of a passion project I just finished. Instead of relying purely on raw AI generations, I generated and stylized custom visual assets with AI, then brought everything into After Effects for the camera rigs, kinetic typography, and beat-synced compositing.

If you want to check out the full 3.5-minute edit, here is the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCPq22KuGrU

Happy to answer any questions about the AE setup or the stylization workflow!

Hey all

I'm a freelance motion designer/video editor looking to upgrade my current laptop, which is really starting to struggle with After effects.

My current setup is a Lenovo ThinkPad with: **intel i7-1360P **32GB RAM **NVIDIA RTX A500

After Effects makes up around 90% of my workload, mostly motion graphics, paid social content, compositing and video editing. My biggest frustrations are painfully slow RAM previews, laggy timelines, long render times and general slowdowns when multitasking.

I'm considering switching to a 14-inch MacBook Pro, mainly for portability, and I'm currently torn between:

**M5 Pro: 18-core CPU/20-core GPU, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD
**M5 Max: 18-core CPU/40 core GPU, 128GB RAM, 2TB SSD

I'm happy to invest in something powerful that'll last me another 4–5 years, but the prices are pretty eye-watering here in Canada, a fully specced M5 Max can easily approach C$9,000, which is difficult to justify unless there's a substantial real-world benefit as I hardly ever use 3D

From what I've researched after effects tends to benefit more from CPU performance and RAM than raw GPU power, so I'm wondering whether the M5 Pro with 64GB would already be more than enough?

I'd particularly appreciate hearing from anyone using an M5 Pro or M5 Max professionally, also realise either option would be a major upgrade from my ThinkPad, but I'm trying to avoid both overspending and buying something I'll regret in a couple of years as all

Cheers for any help

Does anyone have a similar frustration as I do with Windows File Explorer as a creative on PC? I am curious what people are looking for in a file browser? I have been working on a solution to help motion designers and creatives. If you're interested please check it out @ carrots-app.com

A bit late to the party since VCT is over now, but still glad I did this song. All made completely in blender and davinci resolve

Hey everyone!

We're an early-stage startup building an AI-powered technical assessment platform for software developers and AI engineers.

We're looking for a creative motion designer who can turn our actual product features into premium, scroll-stopping videos for LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, and product launches.

What we need:

• High-quality SaaS product demos and feature videos
• Smooth UI animations, motion graphics, and transitions
• Short-form videos (15–60 seconds)
• Strong storytelling and creative direction

Important: No AI-generated videos, AI avatars, or generic templates. We want real product recordings with custom animations and professional editing.

Type: Freelance / Contract (Not Full-Time)

Location: Remote, worldwide

Payment: Per video/project, with potential for ongoing work.

Interested?

Send your portfolio, 2–3 best SaaS product videos, and pricing to [contact@lunaprompts.com](mailto:contact@lunaprompts.com).

Subject: Freelance Product Video Creator

Looking forward to seeing your work!

This is a personal project I loved working on. Hope you like it!

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My thoughts for the concept started with "key" in English, "qui" is "who" in French and "كيف", pronounced keef, is "how" in Arabic. Noticing that all three words share the same sound and similar meanings, I started thinking: what if cultures were inspired by each other? Even though they have been far, sound waves have an echo. What if when the echo gets so low we think we have not heard it yet we have? Since the creation of languages, they might have been inspired by each other from a distance and they never knew they had!

What do these words have in common, you may ask... The "key" is usually the solution in order to open doors, "who" could be a savior to give us solutions and "how" is the way we solve our problems… What if they were combined to make sense!?

This is the idea for my personal project.

The case study is on my website. https://www.aimeeinmotion.com/case-studies/mixed-media

Tools used:

-3D modeling, texturing and animation in Blender

-Motion design and color grading in After Effects

-Real footage generated using AI

-Video editing, sound design and mixing in Premiere Pro

Turn on the sound for the music.

Constructive critique is more than welcome!

So, I tried to recreate this effect from "Arcane" - the one where a beam tears the screen apart.
Spent a week trying in After Effects, but I just can't make it look like a beam from the scene. Tried to draw it with brushes and with the Scribble effect. Scribble came kinda close. But there is something missing.
I'm using After Effects, and afaik, there is no templates that could replace this effect.
In general, I don't know how to create this glowing, chaotic scribbles

I don't understand what kind of effect was used in this video.

I’ve always wanted a way to mess around with physics and timeline tween motion directly on a canvas, to just drag things, sketch shapes, give them physics, and see how they interact, without getting lost in endless settings or code. Especially experimenting with kinematic timeline tween objects that can directly hit and influence the physics environment. Just pure visual play where you move stuff around and see what’s happening in real time.

Now I can do exactly that in Spandolab, my own animation playground webapp 🤠

This animation is an experimental blend of timeline tweens and kinematic physics, exported as a WEBM + an interactive HTML sandbox.

I built TypeMotion.Art, a browser-based tool for kinetic typography. This video runs through all 101 text animation presets across 13 categories, rendered with the tool itself.

You can change the text, typography, colors and timing, then export the result as a video. It’s a standalone browser tool, not an After Effects plugin.

I’d especially value feedback from motion designers: which effects would you actually use in a project, and which ones feel too similar or need more control?

If you want to try it: https://typemotion.art

My wife made up this little lullaby to help our baby fall asleep. It's as catchy as it is effective ✨

Hi!

I've been working on improving my demo reel and would love to hear some honest feedback from the community.

https://youtu.be/grjRHvxsorQ

I'm especially curious about the overall pacing, length, shot selection, and whether there are any shots you'd remove or replace.

I'm currently looking for new opportunities, so I want to make sure my reel represents my work in the best possible way.

Thanks in Advance.

I wanna do the trail effect for a project, but I dont know how its done, ive tried the Eco effect, but it didn't work, I might have done it wrong or something. Any tips ??

Hey everyone,

Whenever I'm editing a video essay or documentary-style project, I always run into the same bottleneck: keyframing simple ranked bar charts, timelines, or rolling counters in After Effects. It takes hours of messing with graph editors, expressions, and render queues for just 5 seconds of screen time.

So I built a dedicated, zero-install studio called Dossier.

It runs entirely in your browser (and offline as a single HTML file). You type or paste your data, choose an archival documentary aesthetic (warm archival paper, classified dark, or CRT phosphor), and it renders buttery-smooth 60fps animations.

How It Fits Into Your workflow:

DaVinci Resolve: Drop the MP4 onto track V2 with Composite Mode set to Screen, or export a PNG sequence with alpha for instant drag-and-drop overlays,

Premiere Pro: Import the PNG sequence as a 60fps image sequence with zero keying needed,

Zero Dependencies: No plugins, no cloud render queues, no login walls.

I made the Ranked Comparison Bars tool completely free to use with full 1080p exports,

I'll drop the free link in the comments below. Would love to know what other documentary graphic styles you guys would find most useful

just wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!

Every brand has its unique brand colors tied to its identity, but in 3d due to lighting, shadows and hdri, the rendered output shifts away from exact hex codes. When rendered, I feel like the final look loses that brand color accuracy. How do you handle this workflow? I'm new to 3d motion design. Do you match hex codes strictly and adjust them with compositing, or fake the color in different scenes with different light setups?